"We expect this number to increase as we tally the October numbers."
She said there would be other Cup-related jobs not listed with Winz and other jobs listed the department was unaware were related to the rugby.
"Between March and September, more than 54,000 Work and Income clients were assisted into work. Over the same period last year, this number was 47,000."
Tournament spokesman Mike Jaspers said 10,000 workers were used by caterers across the 12 venues.
The tournament employed 150 people, most of whom would have finished their contracts by the end of November. The Auckland Council and Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development hired contractors for cleaning and security.
The Kingslander bar, near Eden Park, hired 10 extra staff for the Cup, none of whom will remain employed.
Grossman said while a lot of the positions were temporary, the skills people picked up would help their future job applications.
Some might move into hospitality and retail roles that became available during the summer periods. However, a Ministry of Social Development spokesman said it was expected that some would end up back on a benefit.
Commercial scaffolding-maker Camelspace reported a lift in profits as a result of the World Cup. The firm was responsible for constructing the main stage for Party Central at Queen's Wharf, the World's Longest Bar in Shed 10 and the stage at Aotea Square.
Commercial director Phil McConchie said the tournament was responsible for a 20-25 per cent increase in annual sales for the year.
But he said profit margins were squeezed to 10-12 per cent because of the difficulty of delivering a product during the Cup - largely because of the availability of workforce and the cost of providing staff to deliver large projects in a short timeframe.
"There was loads more work. You can't just double the skilled staff for the tournament and then dump them," McConchie said.
He was able to hire temporary labour for unskilled positions and all staff worked a lot of overtime and every weekend.
McConchie said the company paid penal rates for overtime and the workers were happy for a chance to save.
"The boys saw it as an opportunity to make money, although they were getting pretty tired by the end."
Camelspace was expanding so four more permanent staff were hired because the company was confident there would be enough work for them to stay on after the tournament.
Hirepool CEO Mark Powell, whose company provided the tournament's Portaloos, said the clean-up after the tournament took a couple of days.
While it represented some extra work for staff, the company was not able to hire temporary workers because of the health and hazardous-goods restrictions. "We hired a few casual staff for toilet attending, things like checking there was enough paper."
He said while the company picked up work through the Cup, it ended up breaking even overall because the tournament disrupted a lot of its core, civil-contracting business.
Grossman said Winz worked closely with Accor Hotels and First Security, which needed more staff because of increased demand during the Cup.
First Security hired 101 Work and Income clients, most of whom worked more than 30 hours a week. Accor trained Winz clients and retained 23.
Accor Hotels traineeships manager Hayley Smith said they timed the intake of staff to coincide with the World Cup, but knew they would have had to hire more staff anyway.
"The hospitality industry is quite transient and reliant on work visa people. We wanted to bring people in who will stay with us a bit longer."
All of the Winz clients were hired as permanent part-time employees and had a guaranteed 30 hours' work a week.
"We brought them in on five-week pre-employment training then they moved into housekeeping, food and beverage attending, portering."
She said Accor knew the staff would be needed as many of the company's other employees would decide it was time to move on after the World Cup.
'Awesome' 80hr weeks
Camelspace field supervisor Tala Laban said he had easily been working 80-hour weeks for the past month, delivering his company's products for the Rugby World Cup.
"It's quite exhausting, but it's for the World Cup, you know? It's been awesome."
He leads teams that build and dismantle the company's commercial scaffolding structures.
On Friday, he was overseeing the pull-down of the Telecom HQ set-up in downtown Auckland.
He said the tournament meant he and his team were able to work on different projects. The company was responsible for many of the stages and sets in the city's fan zones. Some structures had 40 or 50 tonnes of equipment and dismantling was likely to take until the end of next week.
Laban said he had been able to save quite a bit of money. "You learn to live off a 40-hour week, and then you make two weeks' wages in one week." He said he would jump at the chance to work on something like the World Cup again.
